After years of working... how do you keep track of your small tips and manuals of things you already done?
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I have been keeping it on different file formats in a shared folder in my NAS, but I can't search easily for the information and recently I am thinking on intalling "mediawiki[^]" on my NAS to migrate all the information there and make it easier to navigate and search for the information. I could keep technical manuals in PDF in the folders I am using now, but my notes and extra explanations there... Do you use something similar? how do you manage it? As always thank you in advance!
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
I made some XSLT files and an XML TOC to point to several HTML text files in a folder. Lots of times, I wished I had a Wiki, and tested a few Wikis, upon which the domain I had the test Wikis on was hacked through a backdoor in one of the Wikis. MediaWiki is probably the safest, but is slow, and I prefer having the articles each in their own text file. Some day.
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I use "Agent ransack". At some point, no matter how hard you try to structure things, it gets a way from you. Agent Ransack is essentially a Grep Tool, that is amazingly fast. It's almost as fast as google itself. It's got a (Right mouse click) Context. My Projects vary the whole landscape of technologies, from strait up.NET projects, Documents, Angular, Documentation, notes, tips. Agent Ransack solves this problem: "I know I have this somewhere, but I forget where it is" Keep It Simple, keep it moving.
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The free versions not too bad. I've not completely converted to it yet but will eventually. If they sold OneNote separately, and not subscription I would probably purchase it.
The less you need, the more you have. Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally. JaxCoder.com
Jumping in only to point out that Microsoft OneNote is free and does not require any "subscription" whatsoever. True, a Microsoft account is needed - but that is all. OneNote for Windows and OneNote can be installed side by side. See here: https://i.imgur.com/pGElovQ.png[^] OneNote for Microsoft 365 can be obtained here: Download OneNote[^] Just my two cents.
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Jumping in only to point out that Microsoft OneNote is free and does not require any "subscription" whatsoever. True, a Microsoft account is needed - but that is all. OneNote for Windows and OneNote can be installed side by side. See here: https://i.imgur.com/pGElovQ.png[^] OneNote for Microsoft 365 can be obtained here: Download OneNote[^] Just my two cents.
I have, and use the free version, we were talking about the paid version being subscription, etc..
The less you need, the more you have. Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally. JaxCoder.com
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I have been keeping it on different file formats in a shared folder in my NAS, but I can't search easily for the information and recently I am thinking on intalling "mediawiki[^]" on my NAS to migrate all the information there and make it easier to navigate and search for the information. I could keep technical manuals in PDF in the folders I am using now, but my notes and extra explanations there... Do you use something similar? how do you manage it? As always thank you in advance!
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
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I have been keeping it on different file formats in a shared folder in my NAS, but I can't search easily for the information and recently I am thinking on intalling "mediawiki[^]" on my NAS to migrate all the information there and make it easier to navigate and search for the information. I could keep technical manuals in PDF in the folders I am using now, but my notes and extra explanations there... Do you use something similar? how do you manage it? As always thank you in advance!
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
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I have been keeping it on different file formats in a shared folder in my NAS, but I can't search easily for the information and recently I am thinking on intalling "mediawiki[^]" on my NAS to migrate all the information there and make it easier to navigate and search for the information. I could keep technical manuals in PDF in the folders I am using now, but my notes and extra explanations there... Do you use something similar? how do you manage it? As always thank you in advance!
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
I use an app to take notes, tree-organised, on my mobile devices. Started in 2001 with Palm, from 2003 with Windows Mobile, from 2013 with Android. In the last move seven years ago I developed my app, since I didn't find anything adequate. In the years I developed it to suit all my needs: text input facilitation (it's WYSIWYG of course), advanced search, internal links, encryption, automatic calculations including spreadsheets, image editor, tasks, progressive backups... This is the beauty of make your own app. Encrypted files are sync daily on multiple devices. Recently, reviewing it for an Android, iOS and Windows implementation refresh, I had a look at other solutions out there - including DokuWiki, OneNote and Obsidian - but I found them too cumbersome, slow and limited. My main notes files, the personal and current work notes, have about 1,600 nodes/pages each. My oldest notes are from 2001. My job is knowledge and I do not have a good memory, so...
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I have been keeping it on different file formats in a shared folder in my NAS, but I can't search easily for the information and recently I am thinking on intalling "mediawiki[^]" on my NAS to migrate all the information there and make it easier to navigate and search for the information. I could keep technical manuals in PDF in the folders I am using now, but my notes and extra explanations there... Do you use something similar? how do you manage it? As always thank you in advance!
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
I'm surprised no one mentioned Evernote. I switch between Evernote and OneNote depending on my mood. It's a bit of a shame the free version of Evernote only allows you to sync with 2 devices as of last year, but I guess they needed to push people to buy their premium subscription. Two devices is enough for me and you can use the website based version in a pinch. Text files are fine but I really like the convenience and instant sync of cloud-based services and the feature richness of dedicated note taking software such as * image OCR * clipping excerpts from websites, * text to speech * recording voice notes of meetings and transcribing them (not very well) * being able to share notes and photos of whiteboards with co-workers In terms of how easy it is to find stuff again, it isn't the software that determines how easy this is, it more comes down to the discipline I have when capturing things to add appropriate tags to them and file them in the right notebook.
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I have been keeping it on different file formats in a shared folder in my NAS, but I can't search easily for the information and recently I am thinking on intalling "mediawiki[^]" on my NAS to migrate all the information there and make it easier to navigate and search for the information. I could keep technical manuals in PDF in the folders I am using now, but my notes and extra explanations there... Do you use something similar? how do you manage it? As always thank you in advance!
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
I'm surprised no one mentioned Evernote. I switch between Evernote and OneNote depending on my mood. It's a bit of a shame the free version of Evernote only allows you to sync with 2 devices as of last year, but I guess they needed to push people to buy their premium subscription. Two devices is enough for me and you can use the website based version in a pinch. Text files are fine but I really like the convenience and instant sync of cloud-based services and the feature richness of dedicated note taking software such as * image OCR * clipping excerpts from websites, * text to speech * recording voice notes of meetings and transcribing them (not very well) * being able to share notes and photos of whiteboards with co-workers In terms of how easy it is to find stuff again, it isn't the software that determines how easy this is, it more comes down to the discipline I have when capturing things to add appropriate tags to them and file them in the right notebook.
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I have been keeping it on different file formats in a shared folder in my NAS, but I can't search easily for the information and recently I am thinking on intalling "mediawiki[^]" on my NAS to migrate all the information there and make it easier to navigate and search for the information. I could keep technical manuals in PDF in the folders I am using now, but my notes and extra explanations there... Do you use something similar? how do you manage it? As always thank you in advance!
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
I've done quite a few different things over the years. I started out with a **huge text file** - like a diary. Then I moved to **EverNote** (before it was cloud based). I experimented with **CherryTree** (because I need platform independence with some of my machines on Linux). Then I moved to **OneNote**@ which was a compromise, was unstable and recently became difficult to export data from (which left me worried). Now I'm back to text files using **Markdown** - and images in folders. I like this approach because: - It allows me to attach diagrams. - It's easily grep-able. - I can separate different content into folders. - Markdown allows me to view it in an attractive way and export it in neat formats for others to read. - I keep control of where the data goes. @ Work supported tool of choice - but not fit for purpose in my experience.
